Squeak IDE Look-n-Feel

Stephane Ducasse ducasse at iam.unibe.ch
Thu Dec 14 13:05:53 UTC 2000


> Stephane Ducasse <ducasse at iam.unibe.ch> wrote:
> >...But I'm really wondering why the blue look or some other nice 
> >enhancements that  already improve the basic look in MVC are not 
> >included in the release.
> >
> >All the people to which I show squeak over the two last year told me the 
same.
> >Open Squeak alone is depressing because the look is ugly.
> 
> That is my experience too. 
> 
> However, when I tried to identify exactly what the problem was, I decided that 
> "native widgets" like Asim suggested were not the answer. I don't want Squeak 
> to look like Windows, or KDE, or Swing or whatever. VisualWorks does the 
native 
> widget emulation thing well, and still does not look all that good. I want 
Squeak to 
> look better than any of these.

I agree completely


> Take a look at Henrik Gedenryd's preliminary anti-aliased font support for 
Squeak:
> http://minnow.cc.gatech.edu/squeak/1231
> This is an example of a relatively minor (compared to native widgets) 
enhancement
> that improves the look of Squeak way beyond any other "IDE" I've seen. 
Hopefully, now
> that FreeType2 is officially released, this work can be finished and 
incorporated into
> the default image.
> 
> Other than fonts, I think much of the new user GUI shock could be fixed with 
some 
> preference adjustments in the default image.
> 
> 
> Ted Wright	mailto:wright at en.com
> 

Stephane DUCASSE (ducasse at iam.unibe.ch) http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~ducasse/
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